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The fact of the matter is that Yuki is not emotionless, she was designed to be “shy” but because her superiors do not fully understand humans, she is not fully capable of displaying emotions. But it is those few glimpses of her reacting to the world around her that make those moments and indeed every moment special just waiting to see her become closer to humanity.
You claim she is unattractive but does every girl have to have ovacious curves and large breasts? No.
Yuki has small features, she doesn’t need prominent body features to stand out – it is a form of cuteness rarely displayed in anime.
She displays loyalty and intelligence, curiosity and even little understanding of simple things, much like a small child learning about the world around themselves.
She is also gentle, only once has she ever struck someone but that was only to get Kyon out of harms way quickly, otherwise, she has only acted out of defense and is even willing to put others’ lives before her own.
And virginity?
Is that supposed to be a factor to determine whether someone is good or not?
This goes back to my exploring child comment. The whole world is new to her and every interaction is important within it. Virginity is like innocence and it is important to keep it. You don’t have to be a sex hound to be good. And frankly by the fact that you even stated that she was bad for being a virgin makes me view you as though you were a prostitute.

Not everybody views things the same way and if you don’t understand it, then don’t try.
As for me, I find her features to be cute – short hair, small stature, but a certain mystery about her. A soothing voice, helpful and gentle disposition without exaggerated features most characters are given to garner attention from the audience.
In fact, most of the series does tend to revolve around Yuki more than Haruhi.

And by the way, I don’t see why so many people hate the fact that Haruhi has an upbeat attitude most of the time. Why would you want someone to feel sad or depressed? She is strong outwardly but inside, she is still a frightened girl who needs Kyon in order to feel strong. She has flaws but she tries to make up for them and even tries to make those around her happy as well, even if it’s at their expense. Maybe the reason I can say this is because I’ve read all the light novels which delve into the character’s personalities more than the anime is able to do. Haruhi grows more attached and considerate of the rest of the Brigade and acts much more maturely, so those who have only seen the anime have yet to view her in a more mature and level-headed tone.

She makes ronery otakus go “MOE MOE!!” TD;DR of most answers here. She’s not a bad character, but I can’t comprehend how serious fanboys get. My God, what is it about moe. *shudder*

She’s not a Rei clone; er, I thought Rei was better. No, I’m not flaming Yuki before someone starts getting all “OMG YOU TROLL” defensive, but for some reason, emotionless girls are just not that interesting to me, and Rei wasn’t completely “:|”

But I she’s not bad. The Disappearance movie is probably going to give her that characterization that I want to see, and besides, anyone who can stand Mikuru’s aggravating existence alone deserves an award.

it’s all about the Tsuruya, nyoro.
heehee, I can’t wait for those bad comment votes.

its because she hides her emotions when as supposed she shouldnt have had any,thus when at anytime she shows any little emotions , be it happy or sad , it is empified and leaves deep impressions. very unique setup. ps: i love nagato-chan rofl midori baloonn

I thought about this for a moment and I’ve come to the conclusion that Nagato Yuki is popular because she is the “Ultimate Virgin”.

Everything is new to her. She’s never had chocolate ice cream, been to a base ball game, kissed, or been in love. It’s very easy for a person to imagine them selves being her guide to the outside world and the experience of the human condition. I believe that has a lot of appeal to a lot of people for a wide verity of reasons.

I’m a girl and I love Nagato :3 She’s cute and cool at the same time. Although this is blasphemy to some otakus, I personally hate Haruhi. She’s selfish, she doesn’t really care about anyone but herself, she’s completely oblivious to the fact she’s like Mary Sue- I mean “god”, she’s abusive to Mikuru-chan, she’s too damn cheerful most of the time, she’s pretty much a crazy bitch, and she knows that she wants to fuck Kyon but she doesn’t admit it. I think this girl is a bitch. I hate these women who hate other girls who are quiet. I mean they’re the goddamn annoying ones! Would you rather go out with someone who’s a little on the quiet side or someone who never shuts up? Exactly.

I’m a girl, and I love Nagato! A part of her appeal is because she’s so quiet, but things do have an effect on her. The one thing I liked about E8 (Okay, I liked more than one thing, but still.) was the fact that you saw minute reactions by Nagato in each repeat, and not the same sorts of changes as the others. For example, the final two cycles, during the “How long have we been doing this?” reveal there was a hint of sadness and desperation. At least, to me that’s what it seemed like. It makes you think that maybe she has all of these different feelings she just doesn’t understand how to articulate.
Then is how she doesn’t understand a few things like having a glasses fetish… Which is insufferably cute. Much cuter than not being able to cook, or sucking at math, or being clumsy like most anime females seem to be afflicted with as of late…

TL;DR- She’s cute. She has an air of mystery. She has non-typical gaps in knowledge.

That’s not by choice though; that’s just because that is her job to keep out of other people’s affairs. There is a difference between what Yuki chose to do and what she is told to do from her creators.

Okay. First, she’s made of awesome. She can hack into any computer through a standard network and rewrite the programming of Windows games through freaking DOS, WHILE EVERYONE IS PLAYING THE FREAKING GAME!!!! On the same network, no less.

Second, she can literally alter reality by rewriting the matrix, as well as rewrite it back to what it was like before, despite all the destruction caused (minus a pair of glasses).

Third, her stoic nature isn’t intimidating at all (I’m not much for hyper girls; too much energy, and a constant smile creeps me out). She’s intelligent, and according to recent episodes (time travel and all), she ages well (as in, barely).

And last, but not least: She can freaking rock out on a guitar. Read sheetmusic in one go, and master it on the spot. All this without changing emotion/expression, not even a surprised, or arrogant smile, after her performance.

Simple answer: What a girl think a guy wants is entirely different to what a guy actually want.

Nagato Yuki is the ultimate low-maintenance girlfriend, the opposite of Haruhi. Perhaps it is selfish of me, but Yuki’s absolute dependability is a massive plus. No, the point isn’t that I would make her do anything and everything so that I can be lazy. The point is I know she is someone I can turn to. When all else fails, when the world is about to end, you know in your hearts of hearts that Yuki will be there, to be your last hope in a world of darkness.

Any self-respecting guy would NOT take advantage of her inability to say no. But it is comforting to have someone who would support you 100%.
And the guy’s job is to NEVER bother her, unless the world is about to end.

Even though Yuki is intelligent, she is constantly curious about the world around her. She is good-looking, but not boastful about it. She can do much more than one could percieve at first glance – one could even say the possibilities are infinite due to just how much she knows and the fact she isn’t human. The person claims Yuki does not show emotion, but depending on how one interacts with her, she will respond emotionally – it’s up to the person to cause the right reaction (so that Yuki may learn).

The combination of all these factors makes an infinitely interesting and more appealing character than Haruhi or Mikuru.

*Huge Nagato Fan*
Man, she’s only just getting mainstream popular too, because before Haruhi got any popular, people were all over Mikuru’s Tits and MOEBLOBness.
I think since people started talking about the movie, she’s getting all the attention.
MAN, IF ONLY PEOPLE COULD READ.
Then again, since Endless Eight, She does deserve it.
As for this random “Girl”, she can be all pissy. Still, she’s really just mad cause she can’t compare at all to Nagato’s epicness.

#1: Nagato has the mighty silvery hair colour that is associated with awesomeness, thanks to Sephiroth. It’s an unconcious connection which instantly makes her more popular.

#2: Nagato is a FUCKING BADASS. Did nobody else notice her powers of fucking pwnsauce when she saved Kyon? I do believe forcing everyone in her immediate area (observers[viewers]) to have a rainbow drug trip at the same time she gets pwned to checkmate an enemy in a calculated fashion constitutes perfect marks as well as bonus points.

#3: Nagato is DFC.

#4: Nagato has glasses.

#5: Nagato is the silent type. Some bitches don’t know how to shut up, Nagato doesn’t suffer from such problems.

#6: Nagato is like some kind of crazy techno wonder, she can hax IRL. Otaku <3 shit like that.

Is there really a need to question why Nagato is fucking awesome? I think this shit is blasphemy.

my guess would be that they like girls like her because they are indifferent. otaku’s are used to being judged and made fun of. with someone like this they can be themselves and not worry. that is also my speculation on why all the animes have lovers come together and are able to be themselves. otaku make anime too. it is kind of a submessage to be sent on accident, i believe this at least. i don’t give a shit about nagato or haruhi myself. i would be a mikuru fan myself, if i had to pick one.

Yuki Nagato is so popular because she’s moe in a way that isn’t generic and obvious. She gains emotions and changes as the story progresses. She has a deeper personality than most moe characters, so she’s less predictable, which is why she’s more interesting than many of the airheads and tsundere characters out there. You wouldn’t know her just by looking at her.

Since she hardly ever shows any emotion whatsoever, otaku will get extremely excited at the rare occurrence of her expressing her feelings, especially when she smiles. That’s why Disappearance was so popular.

Also, the Haruhi series itself is already popular, which is why she’s known at all.

It’s true that at first sight Nagato isn’t very cute, however her true nature comes out sometimes as very caring for those around her but she’s good at hiding this.
I think this is her main cuteness trait, or to me at least.

I actually like Nagato Yuki. Shes quite and keeps to herself and shes powerful when needed. I also admit that of all the girls in my figure collection, shes the one my family doesn’t complain about when they visit.

I’m a guy, and I can’t understand her popularity. Like I said before, when I look at her, I just see a big brain floating in space. I mean, that’s essentially what she is, and I don’t know about you, but that’s not a turn-on for me.

“She’s a gloomy virgin who never changes her expression. Living with her wouldn’t be fun at all, and she isn’t even very cute. In spite of all this, why?”

gloomy? i’d say calm
virgin? you answered your own question
living with her wouldn’t be fun? at least it wouldn’t be annoying
not cute? take these chopstick out of your eyes please,i think that’s the problem…

Well going with character – Nagato’s a lot more awesome. She’s not annoying or a blob, she knows how to work with computers (unlike unfortunately the majority of the populace that turn off people who can), and she’s not selfish.

Going with looks, she’s attractive – 2d no less, and fits into a lot of fetish groups XD.

Also, I agree that Nagato’s the best character in the series, excepting maybe Kyon.

Plus as for the “She’s a gloomy virgin who never changes her expression” you’d hope she opens up to you 🙂

She’s some computer genius Alien. I cant even imagine what kind of things I could do with someone like her. And I’m not even talking about what to do with her body, just about her talents.

I mean, I can create a suber dupper computer virus-like algorithm to deliver all defence systems in my hands… Just think about the goddamn profit!!! She can alter the motherfucking reality too!!! I could turn all women into some cute loli-like girls! It’s like having a GOD play by your hands. And, she apparently would take any order from you, Haruhi wont let you do such things.

anyway, I am bored.
>I don’t understand you guys…
you are a guy. there are no girls who read sankaku
>She’s a gloomy
no, she is just expressionless. She is gloomy only in EE.
>virgin
wait, you are not?? news to me
>who never changes her expression.
then what are these long descriptions from Kyon’s side? Or this moment after they wake up in Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody?
>Only reading books
what about programming?
>and non-talktative Living with her wouldn’t be fun at all
enjoythesilence.mp3
>and she isn’t even very cute.
90% of the internet disagrees
>In spite of all this, why?
In spite of what?

A girl that doesn’t make you want to scream “Shut up”. Yeah i understand why people like her.
Simply she’s not annoying.
Haruhi is the perfect example why people would like Nagato. I prefer a girl that sits there all day looking pretty instead of that annoying bitch. Unfortunately most real women are closer to Haruhi than Nagato.

Character popularity is a mysterious thing. We can only guess at the developments, but we know certain things. One is that small breasts are in when it comes to anime. This is unarguable.

Some guy out there likes Yuki’s character design and or thought she was just a badass motherfucker when she beat Asakura. He makes some pretty good fanart.

Others see it, promote more fanart, such is how things are. I think the link to a character’s popularity is how much fanart they have as opposed to being more popular generating more fanart. Fanart itself drives popularity. Doujins also promote this.

On a personality basis, a girl that will more or less do whatever you ask her to sexually without the slightest resistance or questioning is always nice to otaku I suppose.

My first guess is because every geek has secretly always wanted to fuck their computer, and lets face it, Yuki really is only just a really cute computer.

I mean, you don't need to worry about any of the usual problems associated with fucking a real girl, because she isn't one.

I bet Yuki would gladly swallow every last drop of cum you shot into her mouth all out of curiosity. It would just be data input to her.
She'd likely indulge any fantasy you could dream up all out of a desire to do research.
You and the guys could likely fuck her till you all collapsed as totally cum drained totally exhausted smiling idiots 🙂

Where's the downside of Yuki (other than I don't like short hair (which she can likely change).

So nothing about brain or intelligence. At least, if you have a real problem, you know who to ask. Kyon knows that in the anime.
And, of course, she won’t bother you with silly questions like “Do you think I’m fat ?” or “Why are you wearing such clothes ? They’re not fashionable !!”.
Now, the Haruhi-chan version is a complete NEET, which will, of course, appeal a lot of NEET.

Nagato sucks, koodere sucks, she’s fugly, she’s flat, she’s boring, probably the worst “alien” in the 2D world. She should die or at least don’t show her fugly self in the shitty anime. Oh wait… the anime sucks…oh well. To all you lolicons, please die?

But I have a fetish for intelligent androids/gynoids/AIs! ;_; Even though I am a girl. What’s so wrong with liking an amazing mind and a body that’s far more durable and versatile than a human one? She’s cute, and is incredibly awesome and badass… What’s so wrong with liking that? ;__;

its easy to see why we like her, not all guys are into wild girls… its actually a turn off to a lot of guys. its amazing i always thought girls had guys figured out, but girls are just as clueless as guys are about the opposite gender.

Calm, Collected, Intellectual girl.. that’s the kind of girl a lot of guys want to spend the rest of their lives with -_-. wild girls are fun for awhile, its not a trait a guy should want when choosing a wife… Wild girls get bored and cheat on you.

i don’t even know why it bothers her, she probably doesn’t date Otaku anyway. lots of Otaku give up on relationships, the fascination with 2D girls is because we can look at them and they won’t look back, it gives us a secure feeling, we know she isn’t judging us, the girl just poses and can’t refuse, she can’t cheat on anybody, she doesn’t complain if your poor, which is why 2D is considered better to a lot of Otaku.

if you lived a poor life all alone, and your not very good looking, girls will ignore you. after being ignored for years you get used to it and suddenly the ones who ignored you don’t even seem interesting anymore.

With Yuki it’s not just as you describe. It actually goes beyond that.

Yuki Nagato doesn’t have any moral underpinnings that inhibit most people. As someone posted above “She would fuck you if you asked her to”. She would walk around completely naked if asked because she doesn’t care about things like embarrassment or modesty. To her she would let her body be used in any way if it helped her achieve her goal.

This is the allure of her character that I think most people pick up on subconscious or consciously.

You hit on a good point there. The core of moe is afterall, an attraction to weakness.

Why is clumsiness considered moe?
Why is being shy or socially awkward considered moe?
Why is having difficulty expressing emotion moe?
Why is being innocent moe?
Glasses? Lolis? Flat chests? Frail/sick girls?

They’re all weaknesses. Guys pick up on weaknesses in women, it triggers feelings of protectiveness.

Nagato, despite being serious, powerful, and able to take care of herself (mostly), has several moe traits. They’re accentuated by the fact that she’s a humanoid interface that can do and survive things that ordinary humans can’t.

All of this is doubled when you compare her to Queen Bitch Haruhi.

Edit: TL;DR – Weakness is moe, Nagato is moe. I feel like I replied to seriously…

Screw Haruhi’s wavelength. She’s still obnoxious and in great need of being put in her place. That stunning lack of social awareness is just a long way of saying she’s a bossy asshole to everyone around her.

Nagato is also superior to Mikuru because she’s not helpless and is in fact a capable character standing on her own.

Nagato’s emotionless personality just accentuates her love and shows of emotion. Since she rarely shows emotion, the few times she does is a BIG DEAL. Add tha to the honesty mentioned above and you have a “so moe I almost died” shit going on.

What makes a character cute is subjective and people see different qualities. Putting out a statement eluding Yuki not being cute as being a fact is the wrong way of going about that. It would have been better if the person would have said they don’t think she is cute and then asked why they thought she is cute.

Dandere is an abbreviation of だんまりデレデレ[danmari deredere]. だんまり[danmari] means to be calm or to shut one’s mouth up all the time. And デレデレ means, you know, such a sweet attitude. She doesn’t speak at all mostly, but when there’s no one else but you two, she would be sweet to you. In other words, she would be in deredere-mode.

Nope, they don’t look the same. When you said “all the anime characters” did you mean in Haruhi’s show or anime in general? But even if you were referring to just Haruhi’s series, they still look different, cuz of their eye shape and color. Imagining a serious-no-emotion face Haruhi with Yuki’s hair, still looks like Haruhi. Even more so for Mikuru, and especially other characters from different series since the animation’s different. If I didn’t get ur statement in the first place and you have no idea what Im talking about cuz I’m not making any sense, then please ignore me.

her quietness makes her interesting, you never know what she is thinking, but because of her quietness, her action speaks her words, just imagine nagato speaks via her action, you can see she like to meddle.

I agree,
The ideal girl would be someone with who you like to spend time and could share interests.
Even if I were rich, I would still look for a geek girl, I could’t stand it if she could only talk about fashion, stars and other bullshit.

Even though none will be as perfect as Nagato, but that’s always the catch with 3D.

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If someone want only a hot/trophy girl, then the cheapest way might be buying one from a crime syndicate, and later trade her organs in for a new one. *jk*

Yea, but beautiful girls all have a pretty cheap price, all you really need is money. Whereas a wholesome girl that you can be proud to bring home to mom and show off to your friends requires more than just money. So which one costs more in reality Mr. Baller Anon?

If you ask me, model girlfriends/trophy wives are more like gadgets and toys, they’re temporary items that go out of date and grow boring over time. Not something you’d want to keep around for long and just something you do on the side.

See, you need to start thinking like a rich person. If you had the money to spare, both to buy and maintain a ferrari, why would you settle for less? Beautiful girls are a luxury. Yes they are expensive and high maintenance, but so are all luxury items. Find something in your price bracket, and be happy with her. But more importantly, don’t show your jealousy to richer guys by dissing him.
Let’s grow up together, eh guys?
Better yet, let’s get rich and buy luxury items..
😀
“don’t flame me bro!!”

wtf!
girls at tech universities are 1 per 20 guys.
Also they have this “fellowship of retards” following them whenever they go, hoping that the “geek girl” will leave her biker boyfriend and run with them.
its not worth the hassle.

And that’s the problem with the internet. Serious discussion is discouraged, and replaced with a game that accomplishes nothing. Serious critique of anime (that would favor deep characters and higher quality anime) has been replaced with random bandwagoning (that promotes obtuse characters and lower quality anime). A decade ago, good quality anime became popular anime (GitS SAC, Cowboy Bebop, etc). Now anime is trying to chase the moe, tsundere, whatever random trait that 2ch declares is popular, which has contributed to the downfall of anime.

In any era exist good and bad anime. That only depend if you search for it(the majority of people that say that there don’t exist bad animes 20 years ago are childs in this time, and people that say that in this time don’t exist good anime are people that only see anime by the local television). But today, to put it simple: if a anime is a adaptation of a manga, of a light novel or of a visual novel, forget the anime and go read/play the original. But the majority of people are lazy fags that don’t move their ass to even try to learn a litlle of japonese, so they just sit down and wait (for years in visal novel case) until a idle fag make a translation pack and realease it in the internet.

It’s because Negato is emotionless and cute, but she is also helpfull and silent. And watching those small hints of emotions show through, eg. the ep where she hacks the game, is what makes her character adored.

lol, last I heard, a magazine poll(one with Kira Yamato in second place, noless) does not represents not represent anything other than the taste of the readers that particular type of magazine attracts.

Seems like you really are living in an alternate dimension after all, Darkcockslizer

Rei ayanami is still the anime queen today. There are still hundreds of people in foreign countries that just discovered anime and as soon as they watch evangelion, BAM! They all fall in love with Rei. There is just something about Rei that attracts me. The most interesting part is that she doesn’t even try to be cute or be liked.

I dunno, she always sorta came off as a mary-sue to me (I don’t particuarly love the series that much myself). Although, if you put aside all the crazy alien shit she’s kinda plain, and from my point of view all the time travel, espers ect don’t seem to matter as much, as thought they’re more of the driving force behind a strange strage love story. I’m a Koizumi fan anyway, do don’t even mind me.

I’m not even that big a fan of Haruhi, but I like Nagato because she’s extremely reliable, intelligent, albeit naive towards the world of humans. She’s also very quiet, reserved, and ever so mysterious.

You’d THINK she has no weaknesses, but look at that cartigan. She’s obviously weak to temperature. That’s adorable, come on.

All true. By far she is the character that displays the most growth throughout the entire series, especially in the novels. Don’t forget, Nagato’s job is only supposed to be that of the observer, and time and again she steps out of that role and openly throws herself into the situation. To put it simply, what she’s feeling inside can not match her stoney exterior. By far she’s the most interesting character in the series (or perhaps seconded by Kyon, seeing as there’s more to the protagonist that even he has realized).

“Lately it’s all about Haruhi. It can’t be helped.” This really cracked me up.

If i had to say, I thought her popularity was obvious, that even though she can only show dead emotion, it’s the hidden emotion underneath the stoney outward appearance. I haven’t seen Haruhi season 1 for a long time, but for example didn’t Nagato begin to enjoy and get excited when hacking the starwars like game. She has emotions, she just hides them. Any true fan would understand this.